Word: depotism
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...Everywhere comment was the same," cabled Kip Finch, Manager of TIME'S Overseas Editions. "At the ATC Depot in the Place Vendome six G.I.s and a lieutenant grabbed for copies. And when they noticed the date on the cover they 'really gawked; they hadn't seen .an American magazine later than March. As I went on I looked back and there on their blanket rolls sat the seven soldiers with their heads buried in seven copies of TIME-oblivious even of the passing Parisiennes...
...Army was felicitated on its 27th birthday. G.I.s of an air base depot gave liberated Russian war prisoners 4,000 packs of cigarets, 5,000 candy bars, 50,000 cookies...
...given 17 weeks of basic recruit training. Picked men get additional specialized, technical or officer training. Then they are shipped overseas in a casual company, put in a replacement depot for sorting over, finally sent to the manpower stockpile for eventual use as tankmen, artillerymen, infantrymen-whatever they have been tagged. Between induction call and combat may be only ten months...
They Wanted to Fly. Across Canada 4,200 R.C.A.F. trainees were given their choice of transferring to the Army or going home to wait for a draft call. At Toronto's manning depot, only 126 out of 1,200 had volunteered. When an Army officer tried to persuade more of them to enlist, the airmen greeted him with shouts of "Why don't you call on the zombies?" From London came hints of more zombie trouble when Canada's turn comes to fight in the Pacific. Two of the Canadian Press's senior war correspondents - Ross...
...court-martial, scrupulously conducted, had heard evidence for six weeks. Last week it announced its verdict: the 50 Negro sailors accused of mutiny at the Mare Island naval depot (TIME, Oct. 2), were guilty. Neither. the extent of their guilt nor the sentence was announced. Until the findings have been transcribed in longhand (Navy regulations) and sent to Washington for review, even the 50 would not know their fate...